AgriProve Uses AWS and EOSDA to Help Farmers Improve Soil and Address Climate Change

In 2021, AgriProve collaborated with EOSDA, a global provider of satellite imagery analytics, to provide data and imagery support and assist in generating soil organic carbon models. Founded by Dr. Max Polyakov, EOSDA uses artificial intelligence and proprietary algorithms to derive geospatial data and analyze satellite imagery for business and science uses and to make a positive change.

"We want to be able to show that the land management strategy we’re putting in place at the beginning of a project is going to generate additional containment of carbon. The historical information and analytics that we get from EOSDA Crop Monitoring enhanced our ability to do that,” said Matthew Warnken, managing director at AgriProve. 

EOSDA Crop Monitoring, an online satellite field monitoring service, is fully built on AWS, including infrastructure for processing, compute, storage, and data transfer. Customers like AgriProve use the EOSDA Crop Monitoring solution to analyze historical data, create baseline reports, and track the farmland’s progress throughout a project.

EOSDA uses AWS Lambda serverless compute to help process information collected from satellite data and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store large volumes of data. In 2022, EOSDA made several of its solutions, including EOSDA Crop Monitoring, available through the AWS Marketplace, where organizations can find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS. 

AgriProve reports how the land has been worked in the past and how it responds to regenerative land management practices so that a project can be registered and continue to be compliant with the Australian regulatory framework. This enables AgriProvde to share quantifiable soil carbon trends on a regular basis. A five-year retrospective baseline carbon benchmark is required to register projects and  repeat benchmarking is needed throughout the entire 25-year-plus project life cycle. 

“The analytics from EOSDA help AgriProve put forward projects with even more rigor and science behind them while making it even easier for the farmers we work with to see how and where what they do with their land is boosting soil health,” said Warnken. 

Using EOSDA Crop Monitoring data analysis powered by AWS, farmers and landholders can better understand, track, and benchmark the impact that their different land management techniques—including crop choice and grazing intensity and frequency. Of note, this is required to participate in the Australian Carbon Credit Unit program to avoid the release of greenhouse gas emissions or remove carbon from the atmosphere. It also unlocks greater productivity and yield as a result of healthier soil.

AgriProve continues to invest in EOSDA Crop Monitoring and use the data to improve its processes, project efficacy, and customer experiences. Since 2022, EOSDA and AgriProve also have collaborated on the Australian government’s National Soil Carbon Innovation Challenge to use synthetic aperture radar and optics to improve soil carbon storage and measurement. 

By developing this technology and leveraging AWS, EOSDA and AgriProve aim to reduce the number of physical samples needed for Australia’s Emissions Reduction Fund to verify carbon credits. This would significantly reduce the cost of establishing and running a carbon project and make it more affordable for farmers. The Emissions Reduction Fund provides businesses the opportunity to earn Australian carbon credits for every ton of carbon dioxide and avoids emissions using new practices and technologies. 

“Innovation has always been key for us,” said Ferhod Sarmed, chief technology officer at AgriProve. “On AWS, EOSDA has been with us on our journey and is there to support us with innovation and accurate information.”